Eleven-year-old Fig navigates friendships and her first crush while looking for answers about her pianist father’s mental illness by immersing herself in the life and works of Vincent Van Gogh in this own voices LGBTQ middle grade debut. Nicole Melleby’s Hurricane Season is a radiant and tender novel about taking risks and facing danger, about friendship and art, and about growing up and coming out. And more than anything else, it is a story about love—both its limits and its incredible healing power.